November 6, 2025 • 49 mins
Wolves lost to KAT and the Knicks last night, Ravens intel from Nestor Aparicio and some Vikes Bites to fill up the first hour!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Amped against Bridges for the Freakwe the lot to Rudy
inside he throws down his sixth alley you dunk of
the season.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Nicely fined in Town by Anthony EPs.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Here's Town down the lane on Gobert got to the
cup and packed it. Just a little up fake at
the top of the key that got Rudy off balance.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Welcome to nine to noon, Buffalo Wild Wings, Elk River.
Tomorrow for the Friday for the Friday Football.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Hope to see you there. The NBA the NBA.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
The NBA is a league where load management and skipping
games is on vogue. That was not the case last
night in Madison Square Garden. You see the timber Wolves
and the Knicks met for some hot Wednesday night action.
This it basically was like this in the league where
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load management and games skipping takes place all the time.
Last night was like, right, we'll take our best and
play your best and let's see what's up or what's down.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
In the case of the howl Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Brunson, Bridges, Anenobi, Robinson, Towns and Hard off the bench
versus de Vincenzo and Stifle, McDaniels and Julius with nas
Reed off the bench. That's the best six those teams
have Slash had to offer, and the Knickerbockers won by
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twenty three near only.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Eight games into the season. Only eight games out of
the season.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Everything's fine, I mean a needed one up to lay
off there and we had the rolling ball of butcher
knives Tarren Shannon Junior.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
He didn't play man. Is everything's going to be fine,
don't you think?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I think everything's going to be okay eventually, except if
we don't figure out this defensive situation. And I'm not
going to try and pretend that I invented the Great
Nasmith game. However, I will say there's just a different
vibe in terms of what Finchy is able to deploy,
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and just sustaining a defensive presence over the course of
forty eight minutes appears to be at this stage maybe
an impossibility, as what we saw from Og last night
doing his thing, And of course Kat you heard the
highlight fifteen and a bunch for him. So Nikhil Alexander Walker,
I just wonder, you know, of all the things we
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can talk about.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Like the ant came back the very next day.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
We're glad to see Ant back, and Ant is the
antithesis of load management. He's healthy, he's going to play,
and we love seeing him on the court. But maybe
in the midst of all other talkers, how does Finchy
replace what Nikil Alexander Walker brought off the bench and
just the aggressive defensive mentality that he provided in spots
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and now he's making memories with the Hawks and just.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Part of that.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Only eight games in, yes, only eight games in. Patience
is required, but change potentially also required.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
We let it halftime and then allowed eighty three second
half points and it became an absolute laugher. Some context.
Mitchell Robinson. Mitchell Robinson had nine offensive rebounds. Geez, that
tied go Bear, who had nine total rebounds in leading
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the Minnesota Timberwolves in rebounds. Yeah, Mitchell Robinson had nine.
Minnesota was out rebounded fifty to thirty one. So that
means the Knicks consistently were more tenacious, boxed out markedly
better and clean the glass as if the game was
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sponsored by ny skied Squeegee LLC. I always love that one.
Edwards needed one up the layoff. Edwards needed one up
the layoff. He did scored fifteen able to really impact
the game, went to the line just three times, really
ate into it's going to be okay a wall. The
next out should be better for the game changer, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Nine to noon. I just run this week and picked
a good day to ask Parker Fox who'd you rather have?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
And why?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And or Luca on a night.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Luca don Chitz goes for thirty five nine rebounds, thirteen assists,
five steals, and was thirteen of seventeen from the line
and a big three over Wemby. Wow, the old timings
are really on point this week. Polly Wally, take care,
Polly Wally and Karl Anthony Towns. Karl Anthony Towns beloved
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cap It was all up in his feelings after the game.
Karl Anthony Towns, for whatever the reason, can't stop thinking
about being pedaled to the New York Knicks. Here's what
he said after the game quote, I'm still stunned. I mean,
I'm still stunned. It's weird. I feel more like a
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nick now after everything we went through last year. But
it's weird to see that Wolves Jersey, especially the fire
black one, and not see Towns on the back of it.
Why is he so up in his feelings about something
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that took place a year and change ago.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
The con Well, I'll.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Admit, just watching him, it's still different. It's still weird
to me. Right, you draft him, you raise him, he's
here for nine or ten seasons, and now you him
on the other side of things.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And there was a funny moment too.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I think he got dunked on or Anthony got dunked
on by Cat. Yes, like I need a little help here,
But they're like, you can tell that a brotherhood was established,
and so maybe being up on it, up in his
fields is a little easier after you handle things in
the paint. You out rebound a team by as many
as you said nineteen. Overall, maybe it's easier to be
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up in your feels when you handle it the way
you did. Maybe it'd be different if he was on
the wrong side of the score line last night. But
there's a little bit of feel I don't know about you.
When you were watching it last night, Is there any
part it's like, Oh, yeah, it used to be our guy.
We used to compensate him at a high level to
dunk like that. Hey, that's right, we used to compensate
him at a high level to hit those those threes
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on a nightly basis. Maybe the cat was just feeling
at post victory. It's like, those are my dogs over there.
I hang out and I text and talk with those
guys every summer.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I kind of wish I went to camp with them. Mother. Yeah,
be an l for today. He's all up in his feeling.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It's all up in his feelings after a win. Arl
Anthony Towns, I'm still stunned. I mean, I'm still stunned.
It's weird. I feel more like a nick now after
everything we went through last year. But it's weird to
see that Wolves jersey, especially the fire black when it's
fired black, one of fire, and now see Towns on
the back of it, and not see Towns on the
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back of it, those garnet jersey and then a fire.
Later in his postgame interview session, Towns paused because he
admitted he was going to refer to the Timberwolves as we,
symbolizing the connection he feels with the franchise. We built
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something special there. It's different when you're the process, when
you're in the process and now you're going against the process.
They're a great team, might even fire. To see what
they're doing right now special, and I expect nothing less
than greatness from them. Well, now he's kind of wagging
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his finger at us a little bit, he's talking down
to us, talking down to us a little bit, but
he is tall. To see what they're doing right now special,
and I expect nothing but greatness from them. It's always
great when you see your brothers aunt becoming the face
of the league. Me and Rudy, years and years of
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battles against each other, turning teammates, having a close bond.
It was really good to compete against my brothers. It's
deeper than basketball. It's family. Nay, all those.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Quotes were fire. He's totally God descended us big time.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
I mean, seriously, they're gonna do something special over there. Ah,
those kids, the league, in the in the analytical wherewithal
of handling Karl Anthony Towns, the NBA, the Knicks league freak,
or the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
There have been myriad things that have and will be
said about Karl Anthony Towns. Can do this, can't do that,
can't do that, can do this. One thing that never
will be said is that he's not smart. He's a
very smart individual. And he was talking to us like
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we're laughing crying babies.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yes he was.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
It's always great when you see your brothers ant becoming
the face of the league. Me and Rudy, years and
years of battles against each other, turning teammates. HA been
a close bond of was fire. It was really good
to compete against my brothers.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
It was fire.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
It's deeper than basketball. It's family Friday football.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Jeez.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
So what triggered that man? He competed against his brothers
and made his brothers cry uncle like that. Meanwhile, the
Howl is now four and four and hosts Utah tomorrow night.
The Minnesota Timberwolves have lost four by an average of
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nearly fourteen per game, and that includes a.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
One point lost to Luca. We lost to.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Luca one time by one, lost the other three by
a million. Alright, alrighty, how still how hashtag still skull,
hashtag still howl.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yes, we're still howling.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Give me the best hel that you can howl in
the history of the Howl.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Amen, Brotherkay, I'm out for ten minutes?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Alrighty, well, that's that's the average break time here in
the first hour at FM one hundred point three KFA ins.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Perfect, which would be good news for the company if
it were true.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
But you may have ample time alrighty nine to twelve,
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on KFA in at six o'clock. There's some red hot
Thursday night football action in Denver. Ladies and gentlemen, with
the sizzling Broncos taking on the ever fading Raiders and
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the Vikes host Baltimore Sunday at noon on KFAM. Next
Baltimore Radio Personality and overall bon vivant Nestor Apparatio joins
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Speaker 1 (12:33):
From longtime Nine to Noon friend Nestor apparatio, I he's
with Baltimore Positive dot com and am fifteen seventy w
NST and said Nestor joins us. Now, Nestor, welcome to
nine to Noon. How long has Baltimore Positive dot com
been around?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
And what's your role?
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Well, I own it, but I've owned to sports radio
station year for three decades, and my wife was diagnosed
with leukeni in twenty fourteen and fifteen, and I sort
of moved direction into talking about the city and the
city's problems not unlike your city's problems. So you know,
we had issues here back during fifteen, sixteen seventeen, and
I just thought that I would expand my conversations. But
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you know, I heard your intro. You're having fun there.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
My show is.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
More serious these days, which you know I need to
have more fun like you're doing. Pa.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
You didn't hear the first segment when we talked about
the timber Wolves giving up eighty three second half points
to the New York Knickerbockers, a team last night Nester
that did not include Clyde the Clyde Frasier or Patrick Ewing.
But I guess that's one way to look at it. Yes,
we're having fun.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Well no, no, now come on now, the Vikings to
come on. It's been a good week, right, I mean
for you guys, we've sartainly been a good two weeks
for Ravens fans at one in five. So the football,
somebody's going to be disappointed on Sunday night. But both
of these teams feel like they're moving in a more
positive direction. For Baltimore positive, don't you think?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, Baltimore Positive nine to noon positive dot com. Those
forces meet, nothing but love comes out of it. So
forget so Sunday Noon, kfam Nester, forget game shape of
like what's going to happen or details? All right, if
the Ravens fall to three and six, how surprised would
you be? Not?
Speaker 6 (14:21):
And I'm kind of shocked at they're four and a
half point favorite. I mean, it really speaks to Lamar,
and it speaks to how good they are with him.
The numbers against NFC teams that they sort of have
gone on the road and freight trained in past years.
I just haven't seen that team yet this year. Right,
So I think we've seen little spits and spurts of it,
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But I mean Lamar hasn't played a whole lot. Patrick
Carr didn't play a whole lot. The left tackle situation
has been problematic for them. They've blown a lot of leads,
big leads over the last couple of years. Some of
the guys like Marlon Humphrey Roquands I have been you know,
sort of question as to where they are in their
career versus their salary. But last two weeks putting the band.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Back together again, feeling good. They're a big favorite.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
They play the Cleveland Browns next week and then the
New York Jets, so it does feel like there's you know,
two more victims on the slate after this week. But
this feels a lot more serious to me, having witnessed
what the Vikings did in Detroit and laying that tape
out for the Ravens and saying this might be a
different football team than maybe the team we saw two
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or three weeks ago with a really injured Carson Wentz
and saying, you know, how are the Vikings going to
manage their quarterback situation? It looked pretty good to me
last week so I think this is formidable for the
Ravens to go on the road and maybe beating a
team that's perceived as being good with a defense and
being ankled back and a little bit more full strength
on your side and doing it in, for my money,
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the toughest place in the league to play, and I
think your building is real hornets nests for any team
because of the noise and all of that. To see
how Lamar can make that work. You know, they go
in and they actually cover the spread and win and
win impressively and don't make mistakes and don't have a
false starts and types of things that they've had in
the past, and they can show they can run the ball.
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I mean, Pierre, the real problem here has been along
the line on both sides. I mean, they're just not
winning battles of the line of scrimmage, not winning in
the trenches. And a lot of folks thought they might
have been in on Quinn Williams, but that price got
kind of steep once once Jarrett got involved, and it
you know, it didn't material like they would end up
picking up Draymont Jones to get after the quarterback. They've
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had real pass rush problems here. So running the ball,
stopping the run pretty you know, two tenants of you know,
old school football. They haven't done that as well as
they have in the past, not even with Derrick Henry.
So I'm still waiting for this thing to look like
the race car, the thirteen to fourteen win team that
it can't be, but to look like that kind of
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team around into being that kind of team, because at
the end of the year, they got New England, they
got two games of Pittsburgh, two games of Cincinnati. They
have to go to Green Bay. I mean, they have
really tough games. Picking up a six loss, it would
mean there's no more rope for them the rest of
the year.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Really, Nestor Apparicio, let me ask you a question about
WUNST and Baltimore Positive dot Com. And it's it's off
something you said from the outside of outside of our
chap all Right, so you got you got the Orioles,
and uh, you got the Ravens, and you got Baltimore
Positive dot Com WNST. As I've known for years from
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knowing you is we never stopped talking, and then that
would be Baltimore Sports. Yet you said, Paul, you and
the con are having a great time. Boy, it's great
to have a great time and come out of a
break and say can I get some bass?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And then you hear boo doo do do boo doo
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Speaker 1 (17:54):
Doo, and you're like, we're always so serious here at
Baltimore Positive dot Com.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
What do you mean by that? Why? What do you
mean you're so serious?
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (18:04):
I just would I don't play like rock and roll anymore.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
I mean, I enjoy rock and roll, but even though
my hair is longer than it used to be, I
just don't.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
I don't have sound effects in my show. You know.
I used to have like a sound effect opening ear.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
I used to have like movie lines, you know what
I mean, Like what in the why why world of
sports is going on here?
Speaker 7 (18:23):
You know, just things like that that.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Would I could insult a caller who was out of
his mind by playing like a Cuckoossett.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
You know, I did thing. My show was more.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Morning fun type afternoon sports radio back in the nineties
and at the turn of the century, So you know,
I just evolved from that. So I just don't do
that kind of thing. But you know, I get to
talk about other things and social ills and issues and
fixing the world and feed in the world and the community,
and you know, I talk about it, and I talked
to musicians and I talk to all sorts of people.
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But I just don't have the kind of race fund
that a washed up radio jock of thirty five years
like myself would like to participate in, you know, even
a big booming FM mic with stereo.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
I don't have that.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I understand that, And that was very very well explained.
But Baltimore Positive dot Com is a wonderful concept. Likewise
for fifteen seventy wnst and you're a wonderful talent nestor
Apparratio and I'm glad we were able to lay out
the metaphorical therapeutic davenport of love, so you can get
that off your chest.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
That was beautiful.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Well, I just don't take phone calls and people and
yell back and forth and you know what I mean,
and have to take breaks for traffic and weather and
top of the hour flat. I mean, I get all
of that stuff now. I just like sit and talk
to people and when it's over, I stopped talking like
I did with you on my show this week, which
I hope people can go and enjoy it too, because
we always learn a lot more about you, especially when
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you do the horse racing thing. Dude, Like, that's.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
What I mean about the show being fun when you do.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
That kind of thing, you know, like and they're racing
Nestor Appariitia.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Ah, something's gonna miss with mister appar Ratio.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
He's been pulled right out of the race at WNST.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
You mean that, Hey, I've been called lame for a
long time, brother.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Better than being called a gelding a Now, so no
movie drops with Baltimore Positive dot Com And you mentioned
the point spreads Raven's favored by like four. Why don't
you give me half the money you were gonna fan
and we'll go out back I'm kicking in the US
and we'll call it a day.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
You mean like stuff like that.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Stuff that just made somebody drive off the side of
the road somewhere and you know, mcdone or something.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
You know what I mean. Yeah, that's what I want.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
That's that's the kind of radio I long to do.
So it's fun to be on your.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Show watching Lamar every game. Should Ravens fans be absolutely
overjoyed that he's their quarterback.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Oh absolutely, because he gives him a chance to win.
And I think the real X factor for him is
go ask every DC in e Laitue how they feel
about having to prepare for him and the type of
talent they need, not just scheme, but the type of
discipline that it takes to stop him when he's healthy
and has all the moving parts. Part of that is
and you'll see this on Sunday, especially when your skull
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skulls scolling that first down. I've never seen anything like
at PA. I mean, first down here for about six
or seven years was an automatic seven or eight yard down.
I mean they were in second and one, second and two,
second and three or just get into the sticks with
a twelve yard run on first down. I mean they
didn't punt around here, right. They had a kicker who
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besides all of these transgressions that I could do a
whole segment on that, and I've done plenty on that
on Justin Tucker. I'm sure we'll be entering the league
again next week. But they had a kicker that could
tick a fifty yard field goal at any point, and
with the quarterback that they have and the offensive scheme
that they run, especially when they had Marshall Yanda and
a really healthy young stud Ronnie Stanley, that they could
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at any point run the football and make you really
weak in the knees with the RPO. I haven't seen
as much of that. I mean, I haven't seen as
much of that. Lamar to Derrick Henry and we're gonna
break your ankles, and we're gonna figure out who's got
the ball where it's going, and it might be going
over your head, debating, it might be going over your
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head to Mark Andrews.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Whatever it is.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
We have not seen that kind of efficiency here from
this team, in moving the football up and down the
field and playing ping pong the way they did for years.
And part of that's really been first down, and they've
struggled to be in a better second down right, second
and one and second and two is a lot different
than second and twelve or second and nine. And then
all of a sudden there's an incomplete pass or something
goes wrong. Lamar's got to dirt the ball. Now you're
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in third and long, and it's just a different game
for them in pass drop situations. This offensive line is
not built to do that. It's not built to be
in third and long. Most offensive lines are not built
to be in third and long. You're built to be
in third and long. You're built to be in the
last place. And this team has had more struggles with
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being in those situations. And you know, also red zone
stuff that should be it should feel automatic when you
have a quarterback that can glide and can get to
the sticks, and it's really a matchup problem that makes
you play eleven and eleven's at eleven or ten in
tight spaces. You know, we always thought it would be
automatic that Lamar from inside the five yard line. Who
could stop it? Nobody can stop it. Plenty of teams
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have stopped it over the course of time, and it's
like anything else, they've.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Sort of caught up a little bit.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
But this is a real measurement for me, PA because
these were the games that prime Lamar and he still
might very well be in his prime. He's got to
ripped off of an MVP. Last year. Prime Labar and
prime Ravens offense could go into any building anytime, especially
NFC buildings where they had didn't have prep time or
didn't have the right personnel or even the right philosophy
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to play it and be embarrassed, and that.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Hasn't happened as much lately.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
And I mean, as a Raven fan, you want to
see that happen again, because when it happens against Cleveland
of the Jets, doesn't really count, especially the Jets at
this point, right so finding their way and looking like
a double digit win football team, which is what they're
going to need to be. And I said Pittsburgh and
Cincinnati are.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
In their way.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
I mean they're rounding into this. Well, start the season
all over again, you know, that's what you do when
you're one in five, you say, we're starting the season
all over again this week. But to your point, they
take on a sixth loss. With the schedule, they have
to think that they're going to run the table or
be able to count past eight or nine. That's going
to be really tough to do.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Next on the menu for the Minnesota Vikings, the Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Ravens sneak peak at next week.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
With Nestor Apparatio Baltimore Positive dot com Baltimore Positive dot com.
I did a chat with Nestor yesterday that's available at
Baltimore Positive dot com if you'd like to watch and
as part of fifteen seventy w nst Hey Nest, How
long have you known Bob Hagen and how did you
guys meet?
Speaker 6 (25:02):
Just a rock and roll dude, you know what I mean,
Bob's always at the super Bowl. I did twenty seven
super Bowls. I think that might be how I know you.
So I did my show on Radio Row for a
long long time. Actually my first Super Bowl ever was
in Minnesota ninety two, the famous Therman Thomas game. But
I think I met Bob fifteen years ago. But he
was a guy I saw for years before that because
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when you check in to get your meaty credited, you
sort of meet all the PR directors from the league
because they're working their tails off allegedly during super Bowl week,
So you get to know people around the league. And
I've always traveled with the Ravens. And I did throw
Bob a note this week, and I'll throw it to you,
and I'll say this publicly for anyone listening. And if
you ever have anyone that rates press Box food, you
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know what I mean, You get a Ross Tucker on
your show or that kind of guy whom I know well.
To me Vikings, press Box food, of all the things
of not coming on the road anymore with the team
and not really being allowed to cover the team on
the side. You can google that as well. I missed
the food, So to me, this is this is the
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one trip where you're being in the media contingent for
the buffet.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Really would have been very desirable.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
That in a trip to Paisley Park with you to
play some.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Hoops, Bob Hagen, don't leave home without him? Time for
two more?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
What was I know you you're you're a concert officionado
as you just mentioned. What was Eagles at the Sphere
in Las Vegas?
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Like it was really good. I saw you too at
the Sphere a couple of years ago from the floor
and was real close to the band, but like the
sky part of the the you know what, you're there
for that sort of planetarium immersion.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
I actually sat up in the upper deck right in
the middle for the Eagles, so it was a much
more immersive kind of cool thing.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
You know.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
I would say I kind of like the Eagles and
YouTube equally, you know, I mean I love them both.
They're different kinds of shows, you know. The Eagles thing
for me was very seated, right like I sat the
entire two and a half hours where the U two thing,
I danced and moved around while the screen moved around.
So two completely different things. But it's a wonderful venue.
I mean the people that have told me they saw
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the Wizard of Oz there in various movies and stuff
like that interacted. But I highly recommend the sphere. Don't
pay full price. That's my well, that would be my
first advice for any time. Don't pay full price. Two things,
Thank you guys when you were getting there, twenty dollar
McCartney tickets two weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Good for you.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Two things here with involving the word combine A nine
to noon yours Turlean Nordo misses you at the NFL
Scouting Combine. Second part, why don't you go to the
combine anymore?
Speaker 6 (27:47):
Well, the combine was a great place to do business,
get to meet people. You know, it's a lot of drinking.
I mean it's in Indianapolis, which is you know I'm
from Baltimore, right, I mean I'm a football fantom of
that age or say you know, enough said so, I
didn't love going to Indianapolis, of all the cities with
little hobbits. I like yours better, you know, but your's
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the way colder. But like you know, where they have
the little hobbit cages that go building the building, So
Indianapolis has that too, But you know, I did a
dozen of them, and it was a deteriorating proposition in
regard to agents athletes access my radio show. When they
put our radio boost in the backside of hell, around
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the corner down underneath the Indianapolis wherever it was, where
nobody wanted to come and do the show. Then we
just said, why are we here other than drinking and eating,
which I mean, come on, it's Indianapolis. I mean you
can get a stake anywhere.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah, yeah, I get that. Time for two more, Time
for two more. How little do.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
People in the DMV, the DMV region region care about
the Washington Wizard?
Speaker 2 (28:54):
How little do they care about the Whiz?
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Well, I'm in Baltimore, man.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
We would tell you the GMV really means like sort
of Washington suburbs kind of sort of, And they would
call baltimore Ians like the outsiders that we are. I
can tell you this from a Baltimore perspective. They were.
They were Baltimore's team, right. Obviously the Baltimore Bullets. So
I grew up with all that, Biggie and my dad
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and West Unseld and you know, and West lived in
Baltimore until the day he died, uh, you know, on
on the southwest side of Baltimore, even though he was
the Washington Bullets coach and and the Washington Wizards GM
and all of that. But Dave Poland, but they've yeah,
they've kind of quit on Baltimore. I mean, if you
really want you know the truth, I mean, ped Lee
owns this. At one point saw Baltimore as the Fort
(29:43):
Worth of Washington, right or as the Saint Paul of Washington,
very very much. That's not true, you know what I mean.
Like he promised me that when the Capitals won the Cup,
he'd bring the cup to Baltimore. They never brought the
Cup to Baltimore. He brought the Wizards Baltimore for a
training camp like at Tason to practice a little bit
(30:04):
shoot around. And then they tried charging people, you know,
one hundred and fifty dollars for tickets for a New
Orleans warrants you know, shoot around August preseason game or whatever,
and people didn't come. And then that was the end,
they played two hockey games in Baltimore. Barry Trots was
a part of the National Predators played and the Boston
Bruins played in Baltimore and the Baltimore at that time
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Royal Farms Arena. But if you've ever been to Baltimore,
you call it the Civic Center. It's been refurbished and
it's beautiful for concerts now. I mean, it's a part
of my childhood where I went to the circus in
minor league hockey and all of that stuff. But yeah,
you know that he's quit on Baltimore. The TV ratings
reflect that from the Caps. I mean, the Caps have
some impact in Baltimore, but I mean, like I know
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all forty of the fans, you know, they've been on
my bus trips down to games, you know. So it's
thirty eight miles that separates the city. But ideologically the
Wizards are like, I mean, I don't know that they're
a factor in DC, but certainly not in Baltimore. They
haven't done anything marketing wise, and I you know, I
mean anything like a billboards, just anything you'd see, anything
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you'd even see out in the community in any way.
They haven't done anything like that in a decade so
and again he tried to move the.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
Team to Virginia.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
He's got bigger fish to price trying to figure out
the baseball team, and his lasty television network that I
don't watch anymore, and just all of that kind of thing.
So I'm not anti DC. Maybe the way I was
as a kid, as a baltimorean where it would be
like a rivalry thing, and how we felt about the
former our name team with the politically incorrect the logo
for all the years of Jack Kn't Cook and all that.
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We had real angst about that when we were kept
out of the leads, you know, after the Colts had
left town.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
But I'm not anti Washington.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
I just they don't do anything to inspire anybody in
their own market. They certainly don't do anything in Baltimore.
They really don't.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Lastly, you said something about the offensive and defensive line
of your beloved Ravens. Well, I mean, I'm looking at
this offensive line from left to right. I mean it's
they're long, they're strong, and they're looking to get it on.
I'm talking Ronnie Stanley, Andrew Voorhees, Tyler Linderbaum, former Gopher
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Daniel file Leile and right tackle Roger Rosengarden. What's wrong
with those guys, Nester.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
Well, you're mister Combine and mister draft guy. All those
guys sounded great on draft day, right, I mean Ronnie
Stanley was you know, look, we had Jonathan Ogden here.
We also had your guy, Brian McKinney here. With Adham,
we wouldn't won a Super Bowl, but Ronnie Stanley was
trending in that hall of very good the first three years,
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which is why he got the big contract. I mean,
if you look up his injury history and what he's
been through, it's heroic. I mean, it's amazing that he
got back on the field. He played as well as
he did last year, and they gave him three year deal.
Other teams wanted him, but you got a twenty million
dollar left tackle who right now it's questionable as to
whether he's healthy, whether he can play. Their backup is
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a guy named Joseph Noteboom, who you know when he plays,
it's it's a massive drop off. It's below the bar.
A left tackle Forhees has been a disappointment. The combination
of wherehe's and Finlele Finle a Leys is a big guard,
you know, built different. They drafted this guy, Ben Cleveland
years ago and had been waiting around. He had some
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off the field this year's last off season. The guard
plays really affect Linderbaum and what they're really trying to
do in the pocket with Lamar and keeping him in
the pocket. He's gotten sacked more than I ever thought
he could possibly be sacked, right, Like when you see
Lamar Jackson getting sacked four or five, six times, like,
what's wrong with him? What's wrong with the line, What's
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wrong with the scheme? How is that happening? But defenses
have trapped them, and part of that has been that
this line hasn't been good enough. Rose and Garden the
second rounds raft pick out of Washington five, but hasn't
been It's the low light of the team.
Speaker 7 (34:04):
It's not well, the low.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Light of the teams related in the pass rush and
the defense in general, which was thirty second in the league,
you know, a month into the season, right, so that
and they're still trying to dig out from underneath of that,
but not being able to run the ball and go
up and down the field the way they have in
the past, and even when they do. The defense is
you know they're gonna wind up winning thirty eight to
thirty seven games to some degree because they're gonna score.
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I mean, they're good enough offense to overcome that. But
get Lamar sacked being at that bad down in distances,
going on fourth down and not making it right. I mean,
hard ball's kind of famous for that, right anywhere from
the forty yard line. You know, those turnovers of the
ball and not necessarily turnovers. Lamar has been pretty you know,
(34:47):
not pretty. Lamar's been Hall of Fame responsible with the
football since he's been drafted. I mean, that's one thing
with him is he feels worse than anybody else when
he throws a pick or drops the ball or gets
stripped or whatever you can physic We see that it's hard.
He's hard on himself. But he doesn't make those mistakes often.
That's not my concern. My concern is just where are
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you on first down? What are you trying to do
and can you be successful doing it? And that's going
to involve the offensive line. I haven't seen enough of
that consistently to feel good about it.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Nestor, You're fantastic, have a wonderful day. Best of luck
with Baltimore Positive dot Com. Unlet's stay in touch, right.
Speaker 7 (35:25):
Ah, meaning adjourned. All questions are done. But I do
love your sound effects.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Brother, I'm Shelly appreciate you, and I'm sure you can
find some sound effects if you really worked hard enough.
Speaker 7 (35:36):
All Right, It's just not part of my act anymore.
But I kinda miss it.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
I really do see you, sive, what just happened? It's Nestor.
I mean, it's the Nestor experience.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
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Speaker 2 (36:03):
What's your role in it? I own it. I always
love that one about.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
The radio station fifteen I mewnst.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
I own that too. I always love that one, damn.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
And I think that I think that might lead into
the whole He referenced it that he doesn't. He doesn't
have a credential to jump into the building and handle
some Ravens related topics.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
He's an elite Ravens mind though.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
Well since we've known him, man, I mean, you want
to talk about grinder, whether it was the radio station
it's the website. Oh yeah, dude's been doing his own
thing beat of owne, drama, etc. For thirty freaking years grinding.
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Speaker 4 (37:22):
I got some audio for you, and we're gonna start
with the head coach, Kevin O'Connell yesterday addressing the media,
and this just kind of popped in my head, like,
are you kidding me?
Speaker 7 (37:30):
Man?
Speaker 2 (37:31):
How about a freaking home game?
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Thanks goodness week for our team coming back home.
Speaker 8 (37:35):
You know, we're talking a lot about now that we
know some of the things that it takes for this
year's team to win football games.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
How we play all three phases? You know?
Speaker 8 (37:44):
Now it's about consistency and you know, showing up at
us Bank Stadium and it's a really good team on
Sunday and performing the way we need to to win.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
You know, part of you know, talking about a muddy NFC,
talking about this team divisions not out of reach. Keep
winning your division games? How about winning your home games?
Because it just pops in my head, Pa, it's November.
We've only played at us Bank Stadium three times and
the team's one and two, losing to the Falcons in primetime,
losing to the Eagles close, of course, the beat down
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over the Bengals.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
But how nice is it? Five of the final.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Nine, Pa, We're going to be in our own comfy
comfine starting this Sunday.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Well, it's nice overall to go Sunday noon, Sunday noon,
Sunday noon than Sam, Sunday noon, Sunday noon, Sunday.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Noon, than Sam.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
It's nice to settle into a routine for players and
coaches who crave routine. So I've heard that a lot
over the last weekend change it resonated, it must matter
something to the Covenant great to be home against a
Ravens team that I'm starting to deep dive that thing
now that you're ready for the game. Call and defense
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over the last three game has been a little different
than the first five games. Not exactly sure why, but
we'll have that all squared away by Sunday. But it's
not It's not that defense that was given up thirty
one and a half points when the team.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Was one and five, though Mikes bikes.
Speaker 6 (39:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
And the quarterback we're going to face on Sunday, he's
a little different too.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
He can get off schedule, right, Coach.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Just playing the initial snap is going to be hard enough.
Speaker 8 (39:17):
The scheme that they run, and it's very well coached
and they're very physicals. Playing the snap itself is the
starting point. Then the next play starts. When things do
go off schedule, and we've played against some guys this
year who have hurt us, you know, whether it's internally
getting up and out of the pocket where you know,
you got to look at the tape and say, was
our rush plan as disciplined as it needs to be
versus a quarterback that can hurt you. And if you're
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going to turn the rush loose, do you have to
have somebody accounting for that quarterback.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Which means uh, contain contain contained.
Speaker 8 (39:47):
To me, it's about disruption and it's about getting him
off the spot, and then it's the player that gets
him off the spot is more than likely not going
to be able to always make the play.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
So who's the next guy there? And was there?
Speaker 8 (39:59):
Discipline and making sure you corral and keep him in
the area that you have to because he can change
a game.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
You know the crazy thing about this game, and you're
gonna dig into it, whether it's defensively and as they've
gotten healthier, maybe this defense a little better than what
the Vikings or any fan would have noticed five six
weeks ago. But even from an offensive perspective, is there
an element of weathering the storm here?
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Pa, because it just.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Feels like like it doesn't feel like the Vikings are
going to beat him forty to six. We're gonna be
watching this game on Sunday. Lamar is going to make
a badass play. One of those tight ends is gonna
find his way loose or into some sort of cushy
spot in the zone. King Henry Dereck Henry runs it
at a high level. He might find his way for
a twenty two yard rumble to match his jersey like
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it kind of feels like this is a weathering the
storm game because you can't keep the MVP down all day.
You just got to keep them down long enough to
let our guys do their thing.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Like it because that there are there's nuance, or there
are things established early in the game that teams are
setting up for later in the game, and that requires
weathering the storm, or like accepting a jab to your
face knowing you avoided the roundhouse. Yeah, and that has
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a lot to do with Lamar, has a lot to
do with end game on bench film study where they're
getting play.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
After play after play.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
In fact, the Lions last week, Bersus brought this up
and he was absolutely right after watching the game back.
The Lions had a third and super long, might have
been third and seventeen, and they threw this weak, little
just soft pass left. I think to Montgomery knowing we're
(41:50):
probably not going to get the first down here with
the way this thing's crafted. Yeah, Well they were setting
something up for later, same formation Jamison Williams on the
other side. Ah, they were trying to get deep to
Jamison off the same look.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Ah, we saw that before.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
We know what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Yeah, but Jamison stumbled at the line of scrimmage and
it ended up being a fat l for the Lions offense.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
The other part of that too, though, is on those
third and longs, it feels like the kiddies they're always
playing it like the opportunity for two, so they get
you that slant. There were a couple in that game,
whether it was Amen Ram, maybe it was Khalif, I
forget who got it was a third and super long
and then you're thinking just hold them and they're gonna punt.
But then they get like fourteen yards on the third
down and now you're sweating. Oh yeah, this seems good
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enough to go for it. The setups in the mind
games with some of these teams, it's unreal.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
Yeah, that's up. That's very well stated. And the Ravens
are not as adept or they don't have a propensity
to chance and them fourth down the way the MotorCity
Kitties do. But they set little things up early in
the game with Reid options and Lamar and the play
action and Lamar the designed four yard run where it's
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going to look the same in the third or fourth quarter.
You're gonna get somebody to bite on it. And there's
Andrew's uncovered middle of the field. It's you know, it's it's.
It's that that term that you invented a couple of
days ago at Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance Center that I like.
It's uh, it's uh. It's the cat and mouse game.
It's the whole cat and mouse game that makes up
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the National Football League.
Speaker 4 (43:26):
By fights, one more from the coach before we hear
from the QB. You know he's listening to Van Ginkle
style in the locker room.
Speaker 8 (43:34):
You know, we had way more snaps with Andrew Van
Ginkle on the field where all eleven guys did their
jobs and knew exactly what the call was. So he
provides so many layers of things to our defense that
allows Flow to be who he wants to be as
a play caller. Kink helps everybody else around him, not
only himself, play at a high level.
Speaker 3 (43:53):
So it's impactful for sure.
Speaker 4 (43:59):
It's even the coach could feel that Van Ginkle returning
last week was a big deal, and you've mentioned it.
Grenard Van Ginkel and number five one Blake Cashman mattering
as they do to this defense. I heard a little
scuttle butt from the play, and I don't know if
there's specific audio or a quote, and maybe I just
(44:20):
need to dig deeper and find it. But they were
kind of talking the last couple of days about that
hit that you noticed Khalif Raymond.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
It was a big, big, big side practice talker yesterday.
Speaker 4 (44:32):
Yeah, and the replay itself is still kind of cool.
The type of player Van Ginkle is. He just gets
completely laid out by Khalif, still gets up and makes
the tackle on Gibbs to end that play. So it
was a brilliant I mean, it ended well, but there
was some frustration.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
I think even the idea.
Speaker 4 (44:50):
The quote dirty, The word dirty was being thrown around
a bit.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
The gink Is on Fire felt it was a dirty hit.
I believe it was THEO Jackson or Josh Women tell us.
There were a couple who were like, that's uncalled for,
that's a dirty hit. Okay, Well, I mean I don't
know if it was a dirty hit. Okay, here comes
Khalif Raymond right side of the formation wide receiver goes
in motion. Think of the gink is on fire and
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his patented left edge spot, which would be the front
side of the quarterback. Van Ginkle does not seem coming
and Khalif Raymond, as Van Ginkle was rushing, absolutely obliterated him.
He did, and he hit him in the side of
his upper body. Okay, now here's the conversation I had
with somebody on the side of practice yesterday, Dan Campbell
(45:41):
pushing the envelope. Okay, relatively early in the game. I
think that was relatively early in the game. Hey, that
guy forty three, it's pretty important to your defense. We
know he's missed five ish games. We just want to
make sure he's all squared away physically. Yeah, okay, we'll
check that box.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
To move on.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
It's a pushing the envelope nature that most, if not
all of them do. The fact that Raymond caught Van
Ginkle off guard does not make it dirty, as the
letter of the law goes with blindsiding somebody like that.
I can't go down that road because I don't know
the letter of the law. So if it was an
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egregious hit, if it was an illegal hit. If it
indeed was a dirty hit, per the illegality of it,
not the perception.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
Well that's one thing.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
The other side of it is in a tightly contested
division where teams are scratching and surviving for any little
morsel they can get, Dan Camp will push the envelope
to make sure one of your previously hurt players, who's
incredibly important, is just want to make sure everything's all
squared away here. Because Van Ginkle's neck did snap and
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when he hit the ground, he hit it face first
and really hard courtesy of low Khalif Raymond. So it
bears following the next time these two teams meet.
Speaker 4 (47:04):
That's a good point. I don't know what the legal
aspect of it is. If it is truly a blindside
block should have been flagged. I mean, liber He's going
to be in studio next, he said. During the Power
Trap Morning show, he brought up the name hinz Ward,
which leads me down the road of remember all those
times upfield he would lay out a linebacker, he would
lay out a corner specifically in run defense, or even
(47:27):
to support maybe another wide receiver. Like the physical aspect
of the game. But if roles were reversed. I don't
know how mad we'd be. It's like, oh, Ayden Hutchinson,
he's missed five or six games, and maybe THELN, you know,
he's looking for more than four snaps a game. Maybe
THELN comes in right off the snap and just gives
them a little chip just to see if ninety seven's
all right.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
That's the physical you know, actually bodies colliding part of
the equation of pushing the envelope.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
I mentioned this a couple of years ago whenever we
had the forty nine ers on Monday Night Football early
in the season.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
It was that game.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
Charvarius Ward took one from Addison, then Addison took one
back from Jarvarius Ward.
Speaker 2 (48:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
So we had no Jefferson, but their linebacker, their best
pass covering linebacker, or at least one of the two,
Dray Greenlaw hadn't played in a month. So seven of
the first eight eight of the first nine plays, we're
passing plays in the area of Dray Greenlaw. Why, we
just want to make sure you can run. Yeah, I
mean we couldn't, by the way, and he couldn't, all right,
(48:27):
So we're going to come at you in this injury
this play after play after play after play after play,
because we want to you're off the injury report. Man,
you're in the game. We want to make sure you're
all squared away. That stuff happens all the time.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
Vikes bits.
Speaker 4 (48:42):
Let's get to Leber, but maybe during News to Nord,
I did have some audio from JJ McCarthy in my
back pocket that we can get to at some point.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
They're in nine to noon and Ben Leber notcho. Leeber
joins nine to Noon around the corner into the middle
portion of the program at FN one hundred point three.
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inside he throws down his sixth alley you dunk of
the season.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Nicely fined in Town by Anthony EPs.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Here's Town down the lane on Gobert got to the
cup and packed it. Just a little up fake at
the top of the key that got Rudy off balance.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
And good morning.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Welcome to nine to noon, Buffalo Wild Wings, Elk River.
Tomorrow for the Friday for the Friday Football.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Hope to see you there. The NBA the NBA.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
The NBA is a league where load management and skipping
games is on vogue. That was not the case last
night in Madison Square Garden. You see the timber Wolves
and the Knicks met for some hot Wednesday night action.
This it basically was like this in the league where
(01:04):
load management and games skipping takes place all the time.
Last night was like, right, we'll take our best and
play your best and let's see what's up or what's down.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
In the case of the howl Oh.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Brunson, Bridges, Anenobi, Robinson, Towns and Hard off the bench
versus de Vincenzo and Stifle, McDaniels and Julius with nas
Reed off the bench. That's the best six those teams
have Slash had to offer, and the Knickerbockers won by
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twenty three near only.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Eight games into the season. Only eight games out of
the season.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Everything's fine, I mean a needed one up to lay
off there and we had the rolling ball of butcher
knives Tarren Shannon Junior.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
He didn't play man. Is everything's going to be fine,
don't you think?
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I think everything's going to be okay eventually, except if
we don't figure out this defensive situation. And I'm not
going to try and pretend that I invented the Great
Nasmith game. However, I will say there's just a different
vibe in terms of what Finchy is able to deploy,
(02:27):
and just sustaining a defensive presence over the course of
forty eight minutes appears to be at this stage maybe
an impossibility, as what we saw from Og last night
doing his thing, And of course Kat you heard the
highlight fifteen and a bunch for him. So Nikhil Alexander Walker,
I just wonder, you know, of all the things we
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can talk about.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Like the ant came back the very next day.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
We're glad to see Ant back, and Ant is the
antithesis of load management. He's healthy, he's going to play,
and we love seeing him on the court. But maybe
in the midst of all other talkers, how does Finchy
replace what Nikil Alexander Walker brought off the bench and
just the aggressive defensive mentality that he provided in spots
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and now he's making memories with the Hawks and just.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Part of that.
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Only eight games in, yes, only eight games in. Patience
is required, but change potentially also required.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
We let it halftime and then allowed eighty three second
half points and it became an absolute laugher. Some context.
Mitchell Robinson. Mitchell Robinson had nine offensive rebounds. Geez, that
tied go Bear, who had nine total rebounds in leading
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the Minnesota Timberwolves in rebounds. Yeah, Mitchell Robinson had nine.
Minnesota was out rebounded fifty to thirty one. So that
means the Knicks consistently were more tenacious, boxed out markedly
better and clean the glass as if the game was
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sponsored by ny skied Squeegee LLC. I always love that one.
Edwards needed one up the layoff. Edwards needed one up
the layoff. He did scored fifteen able to really impact
the game, went to the line just three times, really
ate into it's going to be okay a wall. The
next out should be better for the game changer, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Nine to noon. I just run this week and picked
a good day to ask Parker Fox who'd you rather have?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
And why?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And or Luca on a night.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Luca don Chitz goes for thirty five nine rebounds, thirteen assists,
five steals, and was thirteen of seventeen from the line
and a big three over Wemby. Wow, the old timings
are really on point this week. Polly Wally, take care,
Polly Wally and Karl Anthony Towns. Karl Anthony Towns beloved
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cap It was all up in his feelings after the game.
Karl Anthony Towns, for whatever the reason, can't stop thinking
about being pedaled to the New York Knicks. Here's what
he said after the game quote, I'm still stunned. I mean,
I'm still stunned. It's weird. I feel more like a
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nick now after everything we went through last year. But
it's weird to see that Wolves Jersey, especially the fire
black one, and not see Towns on the back of it.
Why is he so up in his feelings about something
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that took place a year and change ago.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
The con Well, I'll.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Admit, just watching him, it's still different. It's still weird
to me. Right, you draft him, you raise him, he's
here for nine or ten seasons, and now you him
on the other side of things.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
And there was a funny moment too.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
I think he got dunked on or Anthony got dunked
on by Cat. Yes, like I need a little help here,
But they're like, you can tell that a brotherhood was established,
and so maybe being up on it, up in his
fields is a little easier after you handle things in
the paint. You out rebound a team by as many
as you said nineteen. Overall, maybe it's easier to be
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up in your feels when you handle it the way
you did. Maybe it'd be different if he was on
the wrong side of the score line last night. But
there's a little bit of feel I don't know about you.
When you were watching it last night, Is there any
part it's like, Oh, yeah, it used to be our guy.
We used to compensate him at a high level to
dunk like that. Hey, that's right, we used to compensate
him at a high level to hit those those threes
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on a nightly basis. Maybe the cat was just feeling
at post victory. It's like, those are my dogs over there.
I hang out and I text and talk with those
guys every summer.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
I kind of wish I went to camp with them. Mother. Yeah,
be an l for today. He's all up in his feeling.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
It's all up in his feelings after a win. Arl
Anthony Towns, I'm still stunned. I mean, I'm still stunned.
It's weird. I feel more like a nick now after
everything we went through last year. But it's weird to
see that Wolves jersey, especially the fire black when it's
fired black, one of fire, and now see Towns on
the back of it, and not see Towns on the
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back of it, those garnet jersey and then a fire.
Later in his postgame interview session, Towns paused because he
admitted he was going to refer to the Timberwolves as we,
symbolizing the connection he feels with the franchise. We built
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something special there. It's different when you're the process, when
you're in the process and now you're going against the process.
They're a great team, might even fire. To see what
they're doing right now special, and I expect nothing less
than greatness from them. Well, now he's kind of wagging
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his finger at us a little bit, he's talking down
to us, talking down to us a little bit, but
he is tall. To see what they're doing right now special,
and I expect nothing but greatness from them. It's always
great when you see your brothers aunt becoming the face
of the league. Me and Rudy, years and years of
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battles against each other, turning teammates, having a close bond.
It was really good to compete against my brothers. It's
deeper than basketball. It's family. Nay, all those.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Quotes were fire. He's totally God descended us big time.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
I mean, seriously, they're gonna do something special over there. Ah,
those kids, the league, in the in the analytical wherewithal
of handling Karl Anthony Towns, the NBA, the Knicks league freak,
or the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
There have been myriad things that have and will be
said about Karl Anthony Towns. Can do this, can't do that,
can't do that, can do this. One thing that never
will be said is that he's not smart. He's a
very smart individual. And he was talking to us like
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we're laughing crying babies.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yes he was.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
It's always great when you see your brothers ant becoming
the face of the league. Me and Rudy, years and
years of battles against each other, turning teammates. HA been
a close bond of was fire. It was really good
to compete against my brothers.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
It was fire.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
It's deeper than basketball. It's family Friday football.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Jeez.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
So what triggered that man? He competed against his brothers
and made his brothers cry uncle like that. Meanwhile, the
Howl is now four and four and hosts Utah tomorrow night.
The Minnesota Timberwolves have lost four by an average of
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nearly fourteen per game, and that includes a.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
One point lost to Luca. We lost to.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Luca one time by one, lost the other three by
a million. Alright, alrighty, how still how hashtag still skull,
hashtag still howl.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Yes, we're still howling.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Give me the best hel that you can howl in
the history of the Howl.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Amen, Brotherkay, I'm out for ten minutes?
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Alrighty, well, that's that's the average break time here in
the first hour at FM one hundred point three KFA ins.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Perfect, which would be good news for the company if
it were true.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
But you may have ample time alrighty nine to twelve,
Good morning. The Wild r is at Carolina tonight. That's
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the sizzling Broncos taking on the ever fading Raiders and
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Baltimore Radio Personality and overall bon vivant Nestor Apparatio joins
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It's part of what's on Deck nine to noon. Nordo produces,
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Speaker 1 (12:33):
From longtime Nine to Noon friend Nestor apparatio, I he's
with Baltimore Positive dot com and am fifteen seventy w
NST and said Nestor joins us. Now, Nestor, welcome to
nine to Noon. How long has Baltimore Positive dot com
been around?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
And what's your role?
Speaker 6 (12:55):
Well, I own it, but I've owned to sports radio
station year for three decades, and my wife was diagnosed
with leukeni in twenty fourteen and fifteen, and I sort
of moved direction into talking about the city and the
city's problems not unlike your city's problems. So you know,
we had issues here back during fifteen, sixteen seventeen, and
I just thought that I would expand my conversations. But
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you know, I heard your intro. You're having fun there.
Speaker 7 (13:20):
My show is.
Speaker 6 (13:20):
More serious these days, which you know I need to
have more fun like you're doing. Pa.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
You didn't hear the first segment when we talked about
the timber Wolves giving up eighty three second half points
to the New York Knickerbockers, a team last night Nester
that did not include Clyde the Clyde Frasier or Patrick Ewing.
But I guess that's one way to look at it. Yes,
we're having fun.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
Well no, no, now come on now, the Vikings to
come on. It's been a good week, right, I mean
for you guys, we've sartainly been a good two weeks
for Ravens fans at one in five. So the football,
somebody's going to be disappointed on Sunday night. But both
of these teams feel like they're moving in a more
positive direction. For Baltimore positive, don't you think?
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Yeah, Baltimore Positive nine to noon positive dot com. Those
forces meet, nothing but love comes out of it. So
forget so Sunday Noon, kfam Nester, forget game shape of
like what's going to happen or details? All right, if
the Ravens fall to three and six, how surprised would
you be? Not?
Speaker 6 (14:21):
And I'm kind of shocked at they're four and a
half point favorite. I mean, it really speaks to Lamar,
and it speaks to how good they are with him.
The numbers against NFC teams that they sort of have
gone on the road and freight trained in past years.
I just haven't seen that team yet this year. Right,
So I think we've seen little spits and spurts of it,
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But I mean Lamar hasn't played a whole lot. Patrick
Carr didn't play a whole lot. The left tackle situation
has been problematic for them. They've blown a lot of leads,
big leads over the last couple of years. Some of
the guys like Marlon Humphrey Roquands I have been you know,
sort of question as to where they are in their
career versus their salary. But last two weeks putting the band.
Speaker 7 (15:09):
Back together again, feeling good. They're a big favorite.
Speaker 6 (15:12):
They play the Cleveland Browns next week and then the
New York Jets, so it does feel like there's you know,
two more victims on the slate after this week. But
this feels a lot more serious to me, having witnessed
what the Vikings did in Detroit and laying that tape
out for the Ravens and saying this might be a
different football team than maybe the team we saw two
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or three weeks ago with a really injured Carson Wentz
and saying, you know, how are the Vikings going to
manage their quarterback situation? It looked pretty good to me
last week so I think this is formidable for the
Ravens to go on the road and maybe beating a
team that's perceived as being good with a defense and
being ankled back and a little bit more full strength
on your side and doing it in, for my money,
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the toughest place in the league to play, and I
think your building is real hornets nests for any team
because of the noise and all of that. To see
how Lamar can make that work. You know, they go
in and they actually cover the spread and win and
win impressively and don't make mistakes and don't have a
false starts and types of things that they've had in
the past, and they can show they can run the ball.
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I mean, Pierre, the real problem here has been along
the line on both sides. I mean, they're just not
winning battles of the line of scrimmage, not winning in
the trenches. And a lot of folks thought they might
have been in on Quinn Williams, but that price got
kind of steep once once Jarrett got involved, and it
you know, it didn't material like they would end up
picking up Draymont Jones to get after the quarterback. They've
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had real pass rush problems here. So running the ball,
stopping the run pretty you know, two tenants of you know,
old school football. They haven't done that as well as
they have in the past, not even with Derrick Henry.
So I'm still waiting for this thing to look like
the race car, the thirteen to fourteen win team that
it can't be, but to look like that kind of
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team around into being that kind of team, because at
the end of the year, they got New England, they
got two games of Pittsburgh, two games of Cincinnati. They
have to go to Green Bay. I mean, they have
really tough games. Picking up a six loss, it would
mean there's no more rope for them the rest of
the year.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Really, Nestor Apparicio, let me ask you a question about
WUNST and Baltimore Positive dot Com. And it's it's off
something you said from the outside of outside of our
chap all Right, so you got you got the Orioles,
and uh, you got the Ravens, and you got Baltimore
Positive dot Com WNST. As I've known for years from
(17:37):
knowing you is we never stopped talking, and then that
would be Baltimore Sports. Yet you said, Paul, you and
the con are having a great time. Boy, it's great
to have a great time and come out of a
break and say can I get some bass?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
And then you hear boo doo do do boo doo
doo boo doo doo.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Doo, and you're like, we're always so serious here at
Baltimore Positive dot Com.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
What do you mean by that? Why? What do you
mean you're so serious?
Speaker 6 (18:04):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (18:04):
I just would I don't play like rock and roll anymore.
Speaker 6 (18:07):
I mean, I enjoy rock and roll, but even though
my hair is longer than it used to be, I
just don't.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
I don't have sound effects in my show. You know.
I used to have like a sound effect opening ear.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
I used to have like movie lines, you know what
I mean, Like what in the why why world of
sports is going on here?
Speaker 7 (18:23):
You know, just things like that that.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Would I could insult a caller who was out of
his mind by playing like a Cuckoossett.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
You know, I did thing. My show was more.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
Morning fun type afternoon sports radio back in the nineties
and at the turn of the century, So you know,
I just evolved from that. So I just don't do
that kind of thing. But you know, I get to
talk about other things and social ills and issues and
fixing the world and feed in the world and the community,
and you know, I talk about it, and I talked
to musicians and I talk to all sorts of people.
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But I just don't have the kind of race fund
that a washed up radio jock of thirty five years
like myself would like to participate in, you know, even
a big booming FM mic with stereo.
Speaker 7 (19:10):
I don't have that.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
I understand that, And that was very very well explained.
But Baltimore Positive dot Com is a wonderful concept. Likewise
for fifteen seventy wnst and you're a wonderful talent nestor
Apparratio and I'm glad we were able to lay out
the metaphorical therapeutic davenport of love, so you can get
that off your chest.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
That was beautiful.
Speaker 6 (19:29):
Well, I just don't take phone calls and people and
yell back and forth and you know what I mean,
and have to take breaks for traffic and weather and
top of the hour flat. I mean, I get all
of that stuff now. I just like sit and talk
to people and when it's over, I stopped talking like
I did with you on my show this week, which
I hope people can go and enjoy it too, because
we always learn a lot more about you, especially when
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you do the horse racing thing. Dude, Like, that's.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
What I mean about the show being fun when you do.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
That kind of thing, you know, like and they're racing
Nestor Appariitia.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
Ah, something's gonna miss with mister appar Ratio.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
He's been pulled right out of the race at WNST.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
You mean that, Hey, I've been called lame for a
long time, brother.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Better than being called a gelding a Now, so no
movie drops with Baltimore Positive dot Com And you mentioned
the point spreads Raven's favored by like four. Why don't
you give me half the money you were gonna fan
and we'll go out back I'm kicking in the US
and we'll call it a day.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
You mean like stuff like that.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
Stuff that just made somebody drive off the side of
the road somewhere and you know, mcdone or something.
Speaker 7 (20:34):
You know what I mean. Yeah, that's what I want.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
That's that's the kind of radio I long to do.
So it's fun to be on your.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Show watching Lamar every game. Should Ravens fans be absolutely
overjoyed that he's their quarterback.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
Oh absolutely, because he gives him a chance to win.
And I think the real X factor for him is
go ask every DC in e Laitue how they feel
about having to prepare for him and the type of
talent they need, not just scheme, but the type of
discipline that it takes to stop him when he's healthy
and has all the moving parts. Part of that is
and you'll see this on Sunday, especially when your skull
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skulls scolling that first down. I've never seen anything like
at PA. I mean, first down here for about six
or seven years was an automatic seven or eight yard down.
I mean they were in second and one, second and two,
second and three or just get into the sticks with
a twelve yard run on first down. I mean they
didn't punt around here, right. They had a kicker who
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besides all of these transgressions that I could do a
whole segment on that, and I've done plenty on that
on Justin Tucker. I'm sure we'll be entering the league
again next week. But they had a kicker that could
tick a fifty yard field goal at any point, and
with the quarterback that they have and the offensive scheme
that they run, especially when they had Marshall Yanda and
a really healthy young stud Ronnie Stanley, that they could
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at any point run the football and make you really
weak in the knees with the RPO. I haven't seen
as much of that. I mean, I haven't seen as
much of that. Lamar to Derrick Henry and we're gonna
break your ankles, and we're gonna figure out who's got
the ball where it's going, and it might be going
over your head, debating, it might be going over your
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head to Mark Andrews.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Whatever it is.
Speaker 6 (22:19):
We have not seen that kind of efficiency here from
this team, in moving the football up and down the
field and playing ping pong the way they did for years.
And part of that's really been first down, and they've
struggled to be in a better second down right, second
and one and second and two is a lot different
than second and twelve or second and nine. And then
all of a sudden there's an incomplete pass or something
goes wrong. Lamar's got to dirt the ball. Now you're
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in third and long, and it's just a different game
for them in pass drop situations. This offensive line is
not built to do that. It's not built to be
in third and long. Most offensive lines are not built
to be in third and long. You're built to be
in third and long. You're built to be in the
last place. And this team has had more struggles with
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being in those situations. And you know, also red zone
stuff that should be it should feel automatic when you
have a quarterback that can glide and can get to
the sticks, and it's really a matchup problem that makes
you play eleven and eleven's at eleven or ten in
tight spaces. You know, we always thought it would be
automatic that Lamar from inside the five yard line. Who
could stop it? Nobody can stop it. Plenty of teams
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have stopped it over the course of time, and it's
like anything else, they've.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
Sort of caught up a little bit.
Speaker 6 (23:29):
But this is a real measurement for me, PA because
these were the games that prime Lamar and he still
might very well be in his prime. He's got to
ripped off of an MVP. Last year. Prime Labar and
prime Ravens offense could go into any building anytime, especially
NFC buildings where they had didn't have prep time or
didn't have the right personnel or even the right philosophy
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to play it and be embarrassed, and that.
Speaker 7 (23:53):
Hasn't happened as much lately.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
And I mean, as a Raven fan, you want to
see that happen again, because when it happens against Cleveland
of the Jets, doesn't really count, especially the Jets at
this point, right so finding their way and looking like
a double digit win football team, which is what they're
going to need to be. And I said Pittsburgh and
Cincinnati are.
Speaker 3 (24:14):
In their way.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
I mean they're rounding into this. Well, start the season
all over again, you know, that's what you do when
you're one in five, you say, we're starting the season
all over again this week. But to your point, they
take on a sixth loss. With the schedule, they have
to think that they're going to run the table or
be able to count past eight or nine. That's going
to be really tough to do.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
Next on the menu for the Minnesota Vikings, the Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Ravens sneak peak at next week.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
With Nestor Apparatio Baltimore Positive dot com Baltimore Positive dot com.
I did a chat with Nestor yesterday that's available at
Baltimore Positive dot com if you'd like to watch and
as part of fifteen seventy w nst Hey Nest, How
long have you known Bob Hagen and how did you
guys meet?
Speaker 6 (25:02):
Just a rock and roll dude, you know what I mean,
Bob's always at the super Bowl. I did twenty seven
super Bowls. I think that might be how I know you.
So I did my show on Radio Row for a
long long time. Actually my first Super Bowl ever was
in Minnesota ninety two, the famous Therman Thomas game. But
I think I met Bob fifteen years ago. But he
was a guy I saw for years before that because
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when you check in to get your meaty credited, you
sort of meet all the PR directors from the league
because they're working their tails off allegedly during super Bowl week,
So you get to know people around the league. And
I've always traveled with the Ravens. And I did throw
Bob a note this week, and I'll throw it to you,
and I'll say this publicly for anyone listening. And if
you ever have anyone that rates press Box food, you
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know what I mean, You get a Ross Tucker on
your show or that kind of guy whom I know well.
To me Vikings, press Box food, of all the things
of not coming on the road anymore with the team
and not really being allowed to cover the team on
the side. You can google that as well. I missed
the food, So to me, this is this is the
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one trip where you're being in the media contingent for
the buffet.
Speaker 7 (26:11):
Really would have been very desirable.
Speaker 6 (26:12):
That in a trip to Paisley Park with you to
play some.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Hoops, Bob Hagen, don't leave home without him? Time for
two more?
Speaker 1 (26:19):
What was I know you you're you're a concert officionado
as you just mentioned. What was Eagles at the Sphere
in Las Vegas?
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Like it was really good. I saw you too at
the Sphere a couple of years ago from the floor
and was real close to the band, but like the
sky part of the the you know what, you're there
for that sort of planetarium immersion.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
I actually sat up in the upper deck right in
the middle for the Eagles, so it was a much
more immersive kind of cool thing.
Speaker 7 (26:53):
You know.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
I would say I kind of like the Eagles and
YouTube equally, you know, I mean I love them both.
They're different kinds of shows, you know. The Eagles thing
for me was very seated, right like I sat the
entire two and a half hours where the U two thing,
I danced and moved around while the screen moved around.
So two completely different things. But it's a wonderful venue.
I mean the people that have told me they saw
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the Wizard of Oz there in various movies and stuff
like that interacted. But I highly recommend the sphere. Don't
pay full price. That's my well, that would be my
first advice for any time. Don't pay full price. Two things,
Thank you guys when you were getting there, twenty dollar
McCartney tickets two weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Good for you.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Two things here with involving the word combine A nine
to noon yours Turlean Nordo misses you at the NFL
Scouting Combine. Second part, why don't you go to the
combine anymore?
Speaker 6 (27:47):
Well, the combine was a great place to do business,
get to meet people. You know, it's a lot of drinking.
I mean it's in Indianapolis, which is you know I'm
from Baltimore, right, I mean I'm a football fantom of
that age or say you know, enough said so, I
didn't love going to Indianapolis, of all the cities with
little hobbits. I like yours better, you know, but your's
(28:09):
the way colder. But like you know, where they have
the little hobbit cages that go building the building, So
Indianapolis has that too, But you know, I did a
dozen of them, and it was a deteriorating proposition in
regard to agents athletes access my radio show. When they
put our radio boost in the backside of hell, around
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the corner down underneath the Indianapolis wherever it was, where
nobody wanted to come and do the show. Then we
just said, why are we here other than drinking and eating,
which I mean, come on, it's Indianapolis. I mean you
can get a stake anywhere.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Yeah, yeah, I get that. Time for two more, Time
for two more. How little do.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
People in the DMV, the DMV region region care about
the Washington Wizard?
Speaker 2 (28:54):
How little do they care about the Whiz?
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Well, I'm in Baltimore, man.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
We would tell you the GMV really means like sort
of Washington suburbs kind of sort of, And they would
call baltimore Ians like the outsiders that we are. I
can tell you this from a Baltimore perspective. They were.
They were Baltimore's team, right. Obviously the Baltimore Bullets. So
I grew up with all that, Biggie and my dad
(29:20):
and West Unseld and you know, and West lived in
Baltimore until the day he died, uh, you know, on
on the southwest side of Baltimore, even though he was
the Washington Bullets coach and and the Washington Wizards GM
and all of that. But Dave Poland, but they've yeah,
they've kind of quit on Baltimore. I mean, if you
really want you know the truth, I mean, ped Lee
owns this. At one point saw Baltimore as the Fort
(29:43):
Worth of Washington, right or as the Saint Paul of Washington,
very very much. That's not true, you know what I mean.
Like he promised me that when the Capitals won the Cup,
he'd bring the cup to Baltimore. They never brought the
Cup to Baltimore. He brought the Wizards Baltimore for a
training camp like at Tason to practice a little bit
(30:04):
shoot around. And then they tried charging people, you know,
one hundred and fifty dollars for tickets for a New
Orleans warrants you know, shoot around August preseason game or whatever,
and people didn't come. And then that was the end,
they played two hockey games in Baltimore. Barry Trots was
a part of the National Predators played and the Boston
Bruins played in Baltimore and the Baltimore at that time
(30:27):
Royal Farms Arena. But if you've ever been to Baltimore,
you call it the Civic Center. It's been refurbished and
it's beautiful for concerts now. I mean, it's a part
of my childhood where I went to the circus in
minor league hockey and all of that stuff. But yeah,
you know that he's quit on Baltimore. The TV ratings
reflect that from the Caps. I mean, the Caps have
some impact in Baltimore, but I mean, like I know
(30:49):
all forty of the fans, you know, they've been on
my bus trips down to games, you know. So it's
thirty eight miles that separates the city. But ideologically the
Wizards are like, I mean, I don't know that they're
a factor in DC, but certainly not in Baltimore. They
haven't done anything marketing wise, and I you know, I
mean anything like a billboards, just anything you'd see, anything
(31:10):
you'd even see out in the community in any way.
They haven't done anything like that in a decade so
and again he tried to move the.
Speaker 7 (31:17):
Team to Virginia.
Speaker 6 (31:17):
He's got bigger fish to price trying to figure out
the baseball team, and his lasty television network that I
don't watch anymore, and just all of that kind of thing.
So I'm not anti DC. Maybe the way I was
as a kid, as a baltimorean where it would be
like a rivalry thing, and how we felt about the
former our name team with the politically incorrect the logo
for all the years of Jack Kn't Cook and all that.
(31:39):
We had real angst about that when we were kept
out of the leads, you know, after the Colts had
left town.
Speaker 7 (31:45):
But I'm not anti Washington.
Speaker 6 (31:47):
I just they don't do anything to inspire anybody in
their own market. They certainly don't do anything in Baltimore.
They really don't.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Lastly, you said something about the offensive and defensive line
of your beloved Ravens. Well, I mean, I'm looking at
this offensive line from left to right. I mean it's
they're long, they're strong, and they're looking to get it on.
I'm talking Ronnie Stanley, Andrew Voorhees, Tyler Linderbaum, former Gopher
(32:15):
Daniel file Leile and right tackle Roger Rosengarden. What's wrong
with those guys, Nester.
Speaker 6 (32:24):
Well, you're mister Combine and mister draft guy. All those
guys sounded great on draft day, right, I mean Ronnie
Stanley was you know, look, we had Jonathan Ogden here.
We also had your guy, Brian McKinney here. With Adham,
we wouldn't won a Super Bowl, but Ronnie Stanley was
trending in that hall of very good the first three years,
(32:46):
which is why he got the big contract. I mean,
if you look up his injury history and what he's
been through, it's heroic. I mean, it's amazing that he
got back on the field. He played as well as
he did last year, and they gave him three year deal.
Other teams wanted him, but you got a twenty million
dollar left tackle who right now it's questionable as to
whether he's healthy, whether he can play. Their backup is
(33:08):
a guy named Joseph Noteboom, who you know when he plays,
it's it's a massive drop off. It's below the bar.
A left tackle Forhees has been a disappointment. The combination
of wherehe's and Finlele Finle a Leys is a big guard,
you know, built different. They drafted this guy, Ben Cleveland
years ago and had been waiting around. He had some
(33:28):
off the field this year's last off season. The guard
plays really affect Linderbaum and what they're really trying to
do in the pocket with Lamar and keeping him in
the pocket. He's gotten sacked more than I ever thought
he could possibly be sacked, right, Like when you see
Lamar Jackson getting sacked four or five, six times, like,
what's wrong with him? What's wrong with the line, What's
(33:50):
wrong with the scheme? How is that happening? But defenses
have trapped them, and part of that has been that
this line hasn't been good enough. Rose and Garden the
second rounds raft pick out of Washington five, but hasn't
been It's the low light of the team.
Speaker 7 (34:04):
It's not well, the low.
Speaker 6 (34:05):
Light of the teams related in the pass rush and
the defense in general, which was thirty second in the league,
you know, a month into the season, right, so that
and they're still trying to dig out from underneath of that,
but not being able to run the ball and go
up and down the field the way they have in
the past, and even when they do. The defense is
you know they're gonna wind up winning thirty eight to
thirty seven games to some degree because they're gonna score.
(34:27):
I mean, they're good enough offense to overcome that. But
get Lamar sacked being at that bad down in distances,
going on fourth down and not making it right. I mean,
hard ball's kind of famous for that, right anywhere from
the forty yard line. You know, those turnovers of the
ball and not necessarily turnovers. Lamar has been pretty you know,
(34:47):
not pretty. Lamar's been Hall of Fame responsible with the
football since he's been drafted. I mean, that's one thing
with him is he feels worse than anybody else when
he throws a pick or drops the ball or gets
stripped or whatever you can physic We see that it's hard.
He's hard on himself. But he doesn't make those mistakes often.
That's not my concern. My concern is just where are
(35:08):
you on first down? What are you trying to do
and can you be successful doing it? And that's going
to involve the offensive line. I haven't seen enough of
that consistently to feel good about it.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Nestor, You're fantastic, have a wonderful day. Best of luck
with Baltimore Positive dot Com. Unlet's stay in touch, right.
Speaker 7 (35:25):
Ah, meaning adjourned. All questions are done. But I do
love your sound effects.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Brother, I'm Shelly appreciate you, and I'm sure you can
find some sound effects if you really worked hard enough.
Speaker 7 (35:36):
All Right, It's just not part of my act anymore.
But I kinda miss it.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
I really do see you, sive, what just happened? It's Nestor.
I mean, it's the Nestor experience.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Nestor apparatio joins us now Baltimore Positive dot Com AM
fifteen seventy wnst Nestor Altimore Positive dot Com is relatively new.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
What's your role in it? I own it. I always
love that one about.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
The radio station fifteen I mewnst.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
I own that too. I always love that one, damn.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
And I think that I think that might lead into
the whole He referenced it that he doesn't. He doesn't
have a credential to jump into the building and handle
some Ravens related topics.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
He's an elite Ravens mind though.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
Well since we've known him, man, I mean, you want
to talk about grinder, whether it was the radio station
it's the website. Oh yeah, dude's been doing his own
thing beat of owne, drama, etc. For thirty freaking years grinding.
I love Nestor, so do I thank you Nestor. Vike's
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(37:17):
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Speaker 4 (37:22):
I got some audio for you, and we're gonna start
with the head coach, Kevin O'Connell yesterday addressing the media,
and this just kind of popped in my head, like,
are you kidding me?
Speaker 7 (37:30):
Man?
Speaker 2 (37:31):
How about a freaking home game?
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Thanks goodness week for our team coming back home.
Speaker 8 (37:35):
You know, we're talking a lot about now that we
know some of the things that it takes for this
year's team to win football games.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
How we play all three phases? You know?
Speaker 8 (37:44):
Now it's about consistency and you know, showing up at
us Bank Stadium and it's a really good team on
Sunday and performing the way we need to to win.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
You know, part of you know, talking about a muddy NFC,
talking about this team divisions not out of reach. Keep
winning your division games? How about winning your home games?
Because it just pops in my head, Pa, it's November.
We've only played at us Bank Stadium three times and
the team's one and two, losing to the Falcons in primetime,
losing to the Eagles close, of course, the beat down
(38:11):
over the Bengals.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
But how nice is it? Five of the final.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
Nine, Pa, We're going to be in our own comfy
comfine starting this Sunday.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Well, it's nice overall to go Sunday noon, Sunday noon,
Sunday noon than Sam, Sunday noon, Sunday noon, Sunday.
Speaker 2 (38:28):
Noon, than Sam.
Speaker 1 (38:29):
It's nice to settle into a routine for players and
coaches who crave routine. So I've heard that a lot
over the last weekend change it resonated, it must matter
something to the Covenant great to be home against a
Ravens team that I'm starting to deep dive that thing
now that you're ready for the game. Call and defense
(38:52):
over the last three game has been a little different
than the first five games. Not exactly sure why, but
we'll have that all squared away by Sunday. But it's
not It's not that defense that was given up thirty
one and a half points when the team.
Speaker 2 (39:07):
Was one and five, though Mikes bikes.
Speaker 6 (39:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
And the quarterback we're going to face on Sunday, he's
a little different too.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
He can get off schedule, right, Coach.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
Just playing the initial snap is going to be hard enough.
Speaker 8 (39:17):
The scheme that they run, and it's very well coached
and they're very physicals. Playing the snap itself is the
starting point. Then the next play starts. When things do
go off schedule, and we've played against some guys this
year who have hurt us, you know, whether it's internally
getting up and out of the pocket where you know,
you got to look at the tape and say, was
our rush plan as disciplined as it needs to be
versus a quarterback that can hurt you. And if you're
(39:40):
going to turn the rush loose, do you have to
have somebody accounting for that quarterback.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Which means uh, contain contain contained.
Speaker 8 (39:47):
To me, it's about disruption and it's about getting him
off the spot, and then it's the player that gets
him off the spot is more than likely not going
to be able to always make the play.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
So who's the next guy there? And was there?
Speaker 8 (39:59):
Discipline and making sure you corral and keep him in
the area that you have to because he can change
a game.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
You know the crazy thing about this game, and you're
gonna dig into it, whether it's defensively and as they've
gotten healthier, maybe this defense a little better than what
the Vikings or any fan would have noticed five six
weeks ago. But even from an offensive perspective, is there
an element of weathering the storm here?
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Pa, because it just.
Speaker 4 (40:24):
Feels like like it doesn't feel like the Vikings are
going to beat him forty to six. We're gonna be
watching this game on Sunday. Lamar is going to make
a badass play. One of those tight ends is gonna
find his way loose or into some sort of cushy
spot in the zone. King Henry Dereck Henry runs it
at a high level. He might find his way for
a twenty two yard rumble to match his jersey like
(40:47):
it kind of feels like this is a weathering the
storm game because you can't keep the MVP down all day.
You just got to keep them down long enough to
let our guys do their thing.
Speaker 1 (40:56):
Like it because that there are there's nuance, or there
are things established early in the game that teams are
setting up for later in the game, and that requires
weathering the storm, or like accepting a jab to your
face knowing you avoided the roundhouse. Yeah, and that has
(41:20):
a lot to do with Lamar, has a lot to
do with end game on bench film study where they're
getting play.
Speaker 2 (41:27):
After play after play.
Speaker 1 (41:29):
In fact, the Lions last week, Bersus brought this up
and he was absolutely right after watching the game back.
The Lions had a third and super long, might have
been third and seventeen, and they threw this weak, little
just soft pass left. I think to Montgomery knowing we're
(41:50):
probably not going to get the first down here with
the way this thing's crafted. Yeah, Well they were setting
something up for later, same formation Jamison Williams on the
other side. Ah, they were trying to get deep to
Jamison off the same look.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Ah, we saw that before.
Speaker 3 (42:04):
We know what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
Yeah, but Jamison stumbled at the line of scrimmage and
it ended up being a fat l for the Lions offense.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
The other part of that too, though, is on those
third and longs, it feels like the kiddies they're always
playing it like the opportunity for two, so they get
you that slant. There were a couple in that game,
whether it was Amen Ram, maybe it was Khalif, I
forget who got it was a third and super long
and then you're thinking just hold them and they're gonna punt.
But then they get like fourteen yards on the third
down and now you're sweating. Oh yeah, this seems good
(42:36):
enough to go for it. The setups in the mind
games with some of these teams, it's unreal.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
Yeah, that's up. That's very well stated. And the Ravens
are not as adept or they don't have a propensity
to chance and them fourth down the way the MotorCity
Kitties do. But they set little things up early in
the game with Reid options and Lamar and the play
action and Lamar the designed four yard run where it's
(43:02):
going to look the same in the third or fourth quarter.
You're gonna get somebody to bite on it. And there's
Andrew's uncovered middle of the field. It's you know, it's it's.
It's that that term that you invented a couple of
days ago at Twin Cities Orthopedics Performance Center that I like.
It's uh, it's uh. It's the cat and mouse game.
It's the whole cat and mouse game that makes up
(43:24):
the National Football League.
Speaker 4 (43:26):
By fights, one more from the coach before we hear
from the QB. You know he's listening to Van Ginkle
style in the locker room.
Speaker 8 (43:34):
You know, we had way more snaps with Andrew Van
Ginkle on the field where all eleven guys did their
jobs and knew exactly what the call was. So he
provides so many layers of things to our defense that
allows Flow to be who he wants to be as
a play caller. Kink helps everybody else around him, not
only himself, play at a high level.
Speaker 3 (43:53):
So it's impactful for sure.
Speaker 4 (43:59):
It's even the coach could feel that Van Ginkle returning
last week was a big deal, and you've mentioned it.
Grenard Van Ginkel and number five one Blake Cashman mattering
as they do to this defense. I heard a little
scuttle butt from the play, and I don't know if
there's specific audio or a quote, and maybe I just
(44:20):
need to dig deeper and find it. But they were
kind of talking the last couple of days about that
hit that you noticed Khalif Raymond.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
It was a big, big, big side practice talker yesterday.
Speaker 4 (44:32):
Yeah, and the replay itself is still kind of cool.
The type of player Van Ginkle is. He just gets
completely laid out by Khalif, still gets up and makes
the tackle on Gibbs to end that play. So it
was a brilliant I mean, it ended well, but there
was some frustration.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
I think even the idea.
Speaker 4 (44:50):
The quote dirty, The word dirty was being thrown around
a bit.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
The gink Is on Fire felt it was a dirty hit.
I believe it was THEO Jackson or Josh Women tell us.
There were a couple who were like, that's uncalled for,
that's a dirty hit. Okay, Well, I mean I don't
know if it was a dirty hit. Okay, here comes
Khalif Raymond right side of the formation wide receiver goes
in motion. Think of the gink is on fire and
(45:17):
his patented left edge spot, which would be the front
side of the quarterback. Van Ginkle does not seem coming
and Khalif Raymond, as Van Ginkle was rushing, absolutely obliterated him.
He did, and he hit him in the side of
his upper body. Okay, now here's the conversation I had
with somebody on the side of practice yesterday, Dan Campbell
(45:41):
pushing the envelope. Okay, relatively early in the game. I
think that was relatively early in the game. Hey, that
guy forty three, it's pretty important to your defense. We
know he's missed five ish games. We just want to
make sure he's all squared away physically. Yeah, okay, we'll
check that box.
Speaker 2 (46:00):
To move on.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
It's a pushing the envelope nature that most, if not
all of them do. The fact that Raymond caught Van
Ginkle off guard does not make it dirty, as the
letter of the law goes with blindsiding somebody like that.
I can't go down that road because I don't know
the letter of the law. So if it was an
(46:22):
egregious hit, if it was an illegal hit. If it
indeed was a dirty hit, per the illegality of it,
not the perception.
Speaker 2 (46:31):
Well that's one thing.
Speaker 1 (46:32):
The other side of it is in a tightly contested
division where teams are scratching and surviving for any little
morsel they can get, Dan Camp will push the envelope
to make sure one of your previously hurt players, who's
incredibly important, is just want to make sure everything's all
squared away here. Because Van Ginkle's neck did snap and
(46:54):
when he hit the ground, he hit it face first
and really hard courtesy of low Khalif Raymond. So it
bears following the next time these two teams meet.
Speaker 4 (47:04):
That's a good point. I don't know what the legal
aspect of it is. If it is truly a blindside
block should have been flagged. I mean, liber He's going
to be in studio next, he said. During the Power
Trap Morning show, he brought up the name hinz Ward,
which leads me down the road of remember all those
times upfield he would lay out a linebacker, he would
lay out a corner specifically in run defense, or even
(47:27):
to support maybe another wide receiver. Like the physical aspect
of the game. But if roles were reversed. I don't
know how mad we'd be. It's like, oh, Ayden Hutchinson,
he's missed five or six games, and maybe THELN, you know,
he's looking for more than four snaps a game. Maybe
THELN comes in right off the snap and just gives
them a little chip just to see if ninety seven's
all right.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
That's the physical you know, actually bodies colliding part of
the equation of pushing the envelope.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:53):
I mentioned this a couple of years ago whenever we
had the forty nine ers on Monday Night Football early
in the season.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
It was that game.
Speaker 1 (48:00):
Charvarius Ward took one from Addison, then Addison took one
back from Jarvarius Ward.
Speaker 2 (48:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (48:05):
So we had no Jefferson, but their linebacker, their best
pass covering linebacker, or at least one of the two,
Dray Greenlaw hadn't played in a month. So seven of
the first eight eight of the first nine plays, we're
passing plays in the area of Dray Greenlaw. Why, we
just want to make sure you can run. Yeah, I
mean we couldn't, by the way, and he couldn't, all right,
(48:27):
So we're going to come at you in this injury
this play after play after play after play after play,
because we want to you're off the injury report. Man,
you're in the game. We want to make sure you're
all squared away. That stuff happens all the time.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
Vikes bits.
Speaker 4 (48:42):
Let's get to Leber, but maybe during News to Nord,
I did have some audio from JJ McCarthy in my
back pocket that we can get to at some point.
Speaker 1 (48:48):
They're in nine to noon and Ben Leber notcho. Leeber
joins nine to Noon around the corner into the middle
portion of the program at FN one hundred point three.
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